Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056973

Points: 21

# Comments: 16

The DHS is sending subpoenas to google over mildly critical online posts. [0] By your own standards, that must be ridiculous and draconian too, yes?

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-dhs-aclu-lawsuit-canadian-j...

Their actions are the same - gutting the administrative state, squashing environmental regulations, persecuting queer people and racial minorities. Mass deportations. These were all hallmarks of the terrible Reagan presidency too. Even "Make America Great Again" is a reused slogan from the Reagan days.

Unfortunately the same uneducated morons who hold Reagan up as a great president are behind Trump right now, cheering this car crash of an administration even as they get us involved in new wars.

Anyway, the point is - there will be no justice until the citizens of the united states demand it.

> Since the times GPT-2 was reimplemented inside Minecraft - its quite obvious LLMs are just math.

This was obvious since LLMs were first invented. They published papers with all the details, you don't need to see something implemented in Minecraft to realize that it's just math. You could simply read the paper or the code and know for certain. [0]

> math is the only area of human knowledge with perfect flawless reductionism, straight to the roots

Incorrect, Kurt Gödel showed with his Incompleteness Theorems in 1931 [1] that it is impossible to find a complete and consistent set of axioms for mathematics. Math is not perfectly reducible and there is no single set of "roots" for math.

> It was build [sic] that way since the beginning,

This is a serious misunderstanding of what mathematics is. Math is discovered as much as it is built. No one sat down and planned out what we understand as modern mathematics - the math we know is the result of endless amounts of logical reasoning and exploration, from geometric proofs to calculus to linear algebra to everything else that encompasses modern mathematics.

> And because of that flawless reductionism, complexity adds nothings to the nature of math things, this is how math working by design

This sentence means nothing, because math is not reducible in that way.

> so it can be proven there are no anything like consciousness simply because conciousness [sic] was not implented [sic] in the first place, only perfect mimicry.

Even if the previous sentence held, this does not follow, because while we are conscious the current consensus is that LLMs are not and most AI experts who are not actively selling a product recognize that LLMs will not lead to human-equivalent general intelligence. [3]

[0] https://github.com/openai/gpt-2

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_th...

[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/think/article/mathem...

[3] https://deepmind.google/research/publications/231971/

Here's one:

I think a senior sysadmin needs to sit you down in their office and have a very serious talk with you about the responsibility that comes with writing code other people run. I am serious. We used to have these talks with everyone who got sudo access. You shouldn't be shipping code if you don't understand the trust that is required of people in your position.

This isn't just about this "feature" being active when AI features are disabled, the way you mis-implemented this has resulted in it modifying the commit message with the user even seeing it! That is malicious behavior, not an innocent little feature "to make life easier".

I've fully switched off of VS Code to Kate now, which is faster and better behaved in most cases anyway. Bye.